Boot.



No. 721,668. v PATENTBD MAR. 3, 1903.

v W. GASSIE.

BOOT.

APPLIOATIOH rum) APR. 4. 1902.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM CASSIE, OF BRANTWOOD, ENGLEFIELD GREEN, ENGLAND.

BOOT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 721,668, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed April 4, 1902. Serial No. 101 ,396. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM CAssIE, professor of physics, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Brantwood, Englefield Green, in the county of Surrey, England, have invented a certain new and useful Boot, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boots inwhich the opening in the upper, is at the back. The two sides of the back terminate in flaps overlapping each other and the inner flap has fixed to it a strap, which passes out through a hole in the upper and is secured by a buckle or other fastening to the outer flap. The opening may be provided with a tongue or gusset.

Figures 1, 2, and: 3 are respectively lefthand side, back, and right-hand side elevations of a boot made according to this invention. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are similar views of a modification.

In Figs. 1 to 3, a is the outer flap at the back of the upper, and b is the inner flap. a and b are straps fixed to these flaps, and cis a strap fixed to the upper. The strap cpasses through eyes a and b fixed, respectively, to the edge of the flap a and to the end of the strap 1), and has its end secured by the buckle d to the end of the strap a.

Figs. 4: to 6 show a boot in which the opening at the back does not extend to the top.

The arrangement of straps is exactly the same as in Figs. 1 to 3, except that the strap 0 is wound around the leg and passes through loops e on the flap a.

The hole by which the strap 1) passes through the upper is preferably in the form of a tube, as shown by the dotted line g, Figs. 1 and 4, which may be made either by sewing the lining to the upper or, in the case of an unlined boot, by sewing on a small piece of material inside the upper.

What I claim is A shoe-upper opening at the back of the shoe and providing overlapping flaps, said shoe-upper having an aperture at one side, and an eye at the edge of the outer flap, in combination with a strap secured to the inner flap passing out through said aperture in the side of the shoe, and having an eye on its outer end, a second strap fixed to the outer flap, a third strap fixed to the upper and passing through the eye at the edge of the outer flap and through the eye at the end of the first strap, and means for securing the second and third straps together.

WILLIAM OASSIE. Witnesses:

WM. W. THORNHILL,

WALTER THORNHILL, J unr., WALTER THORNHILL. 

